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Hey, I'm on vacation. It finally happened. No alarm clocks, away message up, etc. And the kids are going to the beach with their grandparents for five days, so it will be mega project + mega relaxing + super quiet time around here for a while. I think Sadie and the Cats will be so doted upon that they may be sad for the kids to come home. But not really.

There's absolutely no excuse for new poems not to come out of this spell of quiet.

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I live in glorious Akron, Ohio, where I write poems, edit the Akron Series in Poetry, and teach literature and creative writing. I am the author of five full-length collections of poems, including A Sunny Place with Adequate Water, Small Enterprise, and the collaborative poetry collection The Czar, with Jay Robinson (all from Black Lawrence Press). I've received an NEA fellowship in poetry, and several individual excellence awards from the Ohio Arts Council. In 2019 my first collection of prose poems, Partial Genius, is due to drop from BLP.
In my spare time, I like to photograph garbage.